2 PETER 3:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,”
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness — the ethical imperative follows directly from eschatological expectation. The question (hoios dei) inverts the false teachers' question: instead of doubting the promise, believers should ask how to live righteously in light of it. Lives of holiness (hagiasmō) and godliness (eusebia) represent the proper existential response to eschatology.
Church Fathers on 2 Peter 3:11
But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Therefore the heavens and the earth, or the world which was preserved from the water to stand in place of that world which perished in the flood, is itself reserved to fire at last in the day of the judgment and perdition of ungodly men. He does not hesitate to affirm that in this great change men also shall perish:…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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